Gender and Climate Change: Toolkit for Women on Climate Change

This toolkit on Gender and Climate Change is part of an endeavour by Isis International to explore innovative and strategic ways to communicate gender justice and climate justice issues, especially from Southern feminist perspectives. The toolkit seeks to provide community-based or grassroots organisations with basic information on climate change and how to communicate climate justice with their constituencies and target groups.

The first part of the toolkit answers the questions: What is climate change and what are the effects of climate change? What is climate justice and what does climate justice have to do with gender? It shows how international bodies concerned with climate change do not take women’s needs or gender issues sufficiently into account. It also looks at the potential solutions proposed by international bodies and at what needs to be done to make these solutions more inclusive of women and women’s needs.

The second part of the toolkit looks at how groups and organisations can use communication and advocacy to work towards climate justice and gender justice. It presents communication tools and strategies and both traditional and new information and communication technologies (ICTs) with a special look at the usefulness of community radio. It also looks at how to use different forms of advocacy including: lobbying, information and communication campaigns, community organising, new ICTs and social media tools. It shows how to build an advocacy plan.